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...unemployed of Rancagua at the rate of 3,000 loaves of bread per day. Inability to import enough food results partly from the Chilean Government's long-standing policy of restricting foreign exchange movements to support the peso-a policy denounced last week by Senor Julio Perez Canto who happens to be Chile's Minister of Finance. In secret, illegal exchange dealings pesos changed hands in Santiago last week at 50 and more to the dollar. The official rate is 16. Chileans were facing simultaneously a four-ply crisis: political, industrial, social, monetary...
This pleasantly written romantic melodrama tells the story of the rise (but not the inevitable fall) of Esteban Perez, hard-riding soldado of a Central American republic which Author La Farge calls "Alturas...
...Sing Sing, Joseph Perez was happy. He thought he was a wealthy man and Sing Sing was his private estate. Unkind alienists pronounced him insane, unkind officials removed him to Dannemora State Hospital...
...freak Constitutional amendment (passed at his behest) he is Commander-in-Chief of the Army and is not responsible to the President of Venezuela. Presumably by General Gomez' order last week the Venezuelan Congress demanded, received and accepted by unanimous vote the resignation of President Juan Bautista Perez, elected only two years ago for a seven-year term...
Religion. Although urban Cubans are mostly Catholic, Voodooism flourishes in small towns and "up country." Within the fortnight Mayor Miguel Quintana of Pueblo Nueva has confessed that he and three other Negro townsmen recently sacrificed eight-year-old Martin Perez to Voodoo Goddess Chantong...